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U.S Army veteran, Craft Beer Aficionado, currently living in Michigan - The Great Beer State 😀

[Fearless @TheeFearless]

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[🇺🇸 🦅Simple Man 🦅🇺🇸 @Soaringeagle45]

An old, blind Marine wanders into an all-girl biker bar by mistake.
He finds his way to a bar stool and orders a shot of Jack Daniels.

After sitting there for a while, he yells to the bartender, “Hey, you wanna hear a blonde joke?”

The bar immediately falls absolutely silent.

In a very deep, husky voice, the woman next to him says,
“Before you tell that joke I think it is only fair, given that you are blind, that you should know five things:
1. The bartender is a blonde girl with a baseball bat.
2. The bouncer is a blonde girl.
3. I'm a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black belt in karate.
4. The woman sitting next to me is blonde and a professional weight lifter.
5. The lady to your right is blonde and a professional wrestler.
Now, think about it seriously, do you still wanna tell that blonde joke?”

The blind Marine thinks for a second, shakes his head and mutters, “No...not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times.”

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸This is not a hard ask.🇺🇸

[Fearless @TheeFearless]

@_nativeamerica 🫡

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

⚽️🏈 Why Do Americans Call It Soccer? Blame England.

Americans get a lot of grief for calling it soccer. It is, the argument goes, a typically obtuse piece of American exceptionalism, a nation so convinced of its own importance that it renamed the world’s most popular sport just to be difficult. The rest of the world calls it football. The Americans call it something that sounds like a position in a law firm. How very them.

Except it isn’t them. Not originally, anyway.

The word soccer comes from Association Football, the formal name given to the game when the Football Association was founded in England in 1863. A few decades later, schoolboys at Rugby School and then Oxford, with that particular genius the English have for mangling perfectly good words, took “Assoc,” short for Association, and bolted on the suffix “-er,” a standard piece of Victorian public school slang used to make anything sound more cheerful. Rugby football became “rugger.” Association football became “soccer.”

The English invented the word. They used it cheerfully for decades. It appeared in British newspapers and formal writing well into the twentieth century without anyone apparently clutching their pearls about it.

There is a lovely wrinkle here, too. “Soccer” was largely the word of the upper class, while the working and middle classes preferred “football.” So when the upper class began losing its grip on British society from the 1960s onward, “soccer” went down with it, quietly dropped the way you abandon a phrase once it becomes unfashionable, and then pretend you never said it at all.

By the time America was building its own professional leagues, “soccer” had become entirely natural there, partly to distinguish the sport from American football, which had arrived earlier and planted its flag on the word “football” with the confidence of someone who got there first and has no intention of moving.

So the next time someone sneers that Americans can’t even name the sport correctly, you can point out that Americans are faithfully preserving a word the English coined, used for generations, then quietly abandoned and somehow turned into evidence of foreign stupidity.

Which, when you think about it, is a very English thing to do.

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[Fearless @TheeFearless]

Please take the time to read this young lady's article.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Fearless @TheeFearless]

Take a minute and read it.

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
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AMERICAN MADE .

The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

[Fearless @TheeFearless]

@HazelVip Hi, 😘

[Fearless @TheeFearless]

@Kristinartz

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

Be thankful! 🙏🏼

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸People need to shut their mouths about a little jump in price for the right reasons.🇺🇸

[Toni @ToniLL22]

America is a Republic and not a democracy, there’s a difference!
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This meme explains something every American should have been taught before they ever left grade school.

The United States was not designed to be a raw democracy, where 51 percent of the people can vote away the rights of the other 49 percent.

We were built as a constitutional republic, and that distinction is not some academic technicality. It is the whole ballgame.

In a pure democracy, the majority rules. That may sound nice until you realize what it really means. If enough people decide they want your property, your speech, your business, your savings, your church, or your freedom, then the mob gets its way.

That is not liberty.

That is legalized theft with a vote attached to it.

The founders understood this danger. They knew human nature. They knew passions rise, factions form, mobs get angry, politicians exploit fear, and majorities can be just as tyrannical as kings.

That is why they gave us a Constitution.

The Constitution was not written to protect the government from the people. It was written to protect the people from the government, and yes, from the temporary passions of the majority.

That is what makes America different.

Your rights do not come from a poll. Your property does not belong to the crowd. Your freedom is not supposed to disappear because some politician found enough votes to take it.

A republic says there are limits. A republic says government must stay inside the lines. A republic says the individual still matters, even when the mob is loud.

And that is exactly why so many people today want you to forget the word “republic” and chant “democracy” instead.

Because a democracy gives power to whoever can stir up the biggest crowd.

A constitutional republic protects the citizen from that crowd.

America was given a republic. Keeping it requires people who understand what was handed to them.

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

This lady is driving down a stretch of road on St. Louis St. in Springfield, Missouri.

She is driving exactly 30
Mph and as she does so the rumble strips create the melody of “America The Beautiful”. This just opened up recently.

The song was chosen as a tribute to America’s open road, the spirit of Route 66 and the upcoming celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary. ❤️🇺🇸

I think that is too cool. Love when towns and cities are patriotic. 💯

Never knew this existed or was a thing. I’ve heard there are other roads in our beautiful country that have other songs as well.

Did you know this existed? Have you ever driven on a road where the rumble strips play a song before? Isn’t that cool?

[Church & State @ericschurchnst8]

I wish I would have found this yesterday, but late is better than never.

[USAFVet @BollingerTodd]

Exactly!

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

More Michigan nursing home scandal.
Whitmer officials were scrubbing the Covid death toll.
We've got the documents.
Next up: who knew what...and when?

[Trumplicans2024.com @trumplicans2024]

great question...
what say you?

[Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff]

It Is Now Verified Fact --
Whitmer had no idea how many elderly were dying in Michigan's nursing homes.
Her health officials used fake numbers and bogus science to justify enduring lockdowns.
How many died who didn't have to?
A scandal incubated in political expediency.
She knew.